WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently Reading

My new work schedule is actually allowing me to get a good amount of reading done on a regular basis, so I’m well on my way to finishing Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer, the third novel in the Southern Reach trilogy. This is a nice change of pace after I took a little too long reading Authority. I know I mentioned this a little last week, but I really like how much this novel is providing clarity and revelation about Area X while still leaving me feeling like I don’t fully understand the why of everything that’s happening. A particular theme in this novel (perhaps the whole trilogy but emphasized here) is the limitations of human subjectivity and how that hinders its ability to understand something truly alien. It seems like further, deeper explanations are still forthcoming in the 100 or so pages I have left, and I hope I’m still happy with where it leaves me.

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Recently Finished

Last week I read through Over the Garden Wall: Tome of the Unknown by Pat McHale and Jim Campbell, which was simply a delightful read. I’ve read some tie-in comic books to cartoons I like before, and I have always found them to be a little spotty. I expected this to be a little more throwaway, with its chapters containing random stories of little consequence to the series, and while that is somewhat true in that you don’t need to read this at all to have a fulfilling experience with the show, it does serve as a wonderful companion to the series, structuring each chapter in such a way that they actually fit between episodes and complement some of the character development we see in the show.

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Reading Next

I’m thinking I have to seriously consider another book to read, as I think I may finish Acceptance well ahead of the end of the month, and I’m not going to abstain from reading just because I finished something faster than I expected to. While I’m making up my mind about that, however, there are some graphic novels I want to read, namely A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll, a comic I wish very much that I’d taken the time to read during Halloween instead of the mediocre fare I did end up reading. A consolation to getting to it this late is that it should make for a fine Christmas ghost story, a tradition I’ve been meaning to embrace but never really have beyond enjoying adaptations of A Christmas Carol.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.